Sunday Night Report: Near Miss

dad vs package

Hi guys. It’s this weekly shit again. LOL not that I don’t like doing it, but then talking to myself and my lazy character just doesn't tally with maintaining a blog. Haha. Just joking. Let’s carry on. I start not with Entertainment News to do myself a self-reflection…

Today’s keywords shall be “FATHER” and “PACKAGE”.

FATHER
Obviously it has got to do with the old man in my family, or how do they call their father… “old geez”, in translation from plenty of Anime I see. Well… Wednesday (the one that passed) was the start of my off and leave, ie Holiday Season until next year, but also that day was the day of his checkup. And it seems that there’s a problem with blood vessels and may be serious enough to go for an operation, slated on two days ago. The bad news? I spent the whole of Friday in Changi Hospital along with my mother just to be by his side (and there he’s pointing to the lonely old man opposite his bed) and helping him whenever my mother prompted.

Yeah I wasn’t good at initiation. If you guys need more read APoL.

The good news? Nothing much happened, and no further operation was necessary, for that “operation” I was mentioning was a check to see the vessel blockage. So, it’s okay. A NEAR MISS.

PACKAGE
Fact is: I wasted 50 bucks on a calendar that never arrived. Or more specifically, I wasted money on a calendar I ordered over the Net, wasn't informed about it’s location when it arrived, and it was sent back to its sender. I called the post office and was too late as they could not do anything about it. I tracked the package in the website and it seems that… the sending back was decided on Friday morning. Yesh all these events are in the current week. (Audience: In other words…) I just missed it. I spent Thursday going around and getting my new phone, which I will explain later in Entertainment News. I could've spent the time calling and gone to the post office to claim it. But NO, I didn’t. ANOTHER NEAR MISS.

The result? I clicked the order button again on Amazon because I so loved Patrick McDonnell and his comic work. (Audience: Oh it’s Mutts…) And this time I’m not going to miss. Surefire methods will be used so that it doesn’t happen again. (Audience: And that is?) Eh…

Guess that’s all, sharing a small part of this emo person’s life to you guys. Finally got this down. Last few days didn’t even have the mood to do so. Entertainment News up next, and don’t think I forgot to complete the Klassic Note Spirit…

Sunday Night Report: The Klassic Note Spirit V – Year 2011

2011 has been proven to be a more vibrant year than ever for Klassic Note, ie. the songs I listen to somewhat does not end. That’s what happens when you listen to J-Pop: Too many songs to listen so you cannot rest.
THE NEW MEDIA
Apparently at this time, many copyright laws and country laws do allow the music companies to appear in more familiar platforms, like for example YouTube, the first and most used video streaming service in the world, which clearly needs no introduction from me. But the companies need introduction, like King Records (with plenty of solo voice actor music careers on hands), Lantis (famous for their Anime songs) and Pony Canyon (also Anime songs, and overseas artists) have been around to give me more songs to preview, and expanding my horizon on music listening, which explains how the songs in my list never decrease, despite the ending of K-ON! with it’s movie and Oreimo with their Ending Songs, at least for the first season.
THE ANIME WORLD WITHOUT BLEACH
Yes, must be very boring isn’t it… NOT! With BLEACH ending soon on March 2012, the sudden stop in artist introductions is a major concern. However new shows with more artists have actually broadened my listening, from Anime “Fractale” featuring AZUMA HITOMI, “[C] - CONTROL: THE MONEY OF SOUL AND POSSIBILITY” Anime original featuring School Food Punishment and NICO Touches The Walls, “A Channel” featuring Kawano Marina, to even Hyadain in “Nichijou”.

Title says it all. She also sang later that year on her 2nd single which hit my rankings, “Kira Kira”…


EVEN MORE NEW ARTISTS

New artists include “ALTIMA”, “LAMA”, “fumika” to already disbanded artist “Natural High” and “negoto”, which can be seen in 2012 actively too.

The great jazz duo “Natural High” singing with a guy: What a fresh idea. Also…

They have awesome piano melodies in their releases. Yesh, this single has been on my shelf already, haha.

As they already say, “picture says a thousand words”, not to even say in video. As you can see, the songs have not decreased, and so is my passion for listening to J-Pop.

Next and lastly: The Klassic Note Spirit last part – 2012 and my wonderful idea of starting all this from five years ago…
[P.S.: (Audience: Huh like that only? Why does it get shorter every time already?) I’m lazy already, huh…]

Sunday Night Report: Entertainment News Weekly

If you’re reading this as if you’re reading a weekly magazine issue, then you’ve not been reading magazines. At all. Let’s get me typing.

ANIME
Coppelion: The guys start their plan to get out of the city to the nearest hospital, and things have been optimistic. Meeting with some pretty heavy issues, I guess it’ll take time, enough for a certain someone to bring out her Coppelion powers and someone to give birth? Well we shall see about Aoi-chan’s seemingly “teleportation” power next week? Can’t wait already…
Samurai Flamenco: Looks like people got used to monsters fighting with superheroes in town? Must be a heck a lot of time already, but King Torture seems to be planning on something. If you read the author at RC he mentioned a few good points to this show’s ending. Are the monsters King Torture possesses under him aliens? What is his intention for taking such a mundanely long time letting his force out one by one? Seems to bring to an awesome ending, but I can’t say yet… On a side note, I just think Hayami Show, the one that acts for King Torture and (if you guys would recognise) Aizen Sosuke in BLEACH,  (despite his age) just has that awesome villain voice. Really.
Nagi no Asukara: Looks like the snow in the surface and the sea is going to freeze the world (I suppose it’s like the Ice Age?)  and thus people in the sea need to hibernate in order to tide over this phenomenon. Yesh. They didn’t mention what happens to everyone else: those NOT living in the sea. So despite everyone thinking that it’s the end of the world, they decide to have the last supper (haha not referring to any masterpiece in any way) before they go into the practice. And seeing as it is the end of the world, people take chance to do what they do best: Last Minute Wishlist. Like confessing his love to someone. Like Kaname to Chisaki. Yep. More exciting love problems next episode.
Golden Time: Banri (the old one) collapses in front of NANA-senpai, and is taken care of thereafter by Linda. Yep. They really are a wonderful couple, isn’t it? Next episode seems interesting, as it’s a beach trip, of course with Kouko-chan, and Linda too, apparently. When the new one awakens I really wonder how he’s going to settle the mess… (Audience: Wow looking THAT far already?) Yep, even though not reading any spoilers…

MUSIC
Last week I waited, and this week I waited. Finally someone gave up the idea of not uploading the single, and thus Ayachi’s 4th single surfaced yesterday on the Net. Eh… still considering her B-side. Feel like… this is a half-hearted compilation. Ore Ska Band would have done better as Ayachi’s accompaniment. Haha.

Also, you guys know Seitokai Yakuindomo is getting a second season for it’s Anime? (Audience: Yeah.) You guys also know that Satomi-chan is going on her solo music debut? (Audience: Yeah? What’s the link?) Well, apparently it’s on 26th February next year called “Mirai Night”, and… it’s going to be the Anime’s Ending Song. (Audience: Oh- WHAT?) Yep. Shocking even to me; I just  got over it just now when I saw the news… (Eh it’s in Japanese so… make a guess?) And looking at the event footage and EVEN listening to the song… I think I’ve changed my mind: I’ll listen. And also look forward to the Anime. Hehe~

In addition, I’ve heard Kana-chan and… at least it’s better than the duty I have to do on Christmas, along with the release of her 5th single. Kawano Marina also sounds good from previews, and most likely is what I’ll be waiting next week. ChouCho’s 2nd album is still in the pending, and unless I see something from her music company Lantis on YouTube… then I’ll make the decision.

Okay, that’s it for the week. And I’m silently enjoying Satomi-chan’s new song… which is only going to appear 3 months later. Well. Next up: The Klassic Note Spirit continues…

Sunday Night Report: The Klassic Note Spirit Part IV–Year 2010

JAPANESE SONGS INFLUX
Because this year is the year I don’t listen to anything but Japanese songs! I swear, really. Where does all of it come from, especially when the count is a record high? A good example is Anime songs (ie. Anisons), and plenty comes from music-related shows, like Ore no Imouto, which emphasises on a new way of creating new fan Ending Songs. Also is K-ON!, which at that time is definitely renowned within the country itself. So much so that… you know SCANDAL? They did a cover of the ending song too!

This is the ending that got me (and many others) hooked…

…and this is from rock band SCANDAL. Frizzy, isn’t it?

Also coming in are new artists coming into the list that I know, like ClariS (duo who are actually schoolgirls and got famous in niconico, Japan’s version of YouTube), miwa (not anything special but she is standing 149cm?) and SPYAIR, a wonderful band for rock songs. Also along with me spending more time reviewing singles and albums, thus the increase in number of CDs in my shelf now. Adding to the numbers is the new voice actor solo music debuts that I noticed from sphere, which I mentioned last week, like Aki-chan (Toyosaki Aki), Tomacchan (Tomatsu Haruka) and most recently on the year is Mina-chan (Kotobuki Minako) who sang a wonderful love song “Startline”.


MAINSTREAM MISSING IN ACTION?
Yesh, already? Yesh. Some artists who have been active for the past few years have suddenly… been rather inactive. Examples are Aqua Timez who only released two singles (once at the start of the year and close to the end of the year, which are awesome though) and Chatmonchy, which only released a mini-album for the year. Not worrying, but it’s a sign…

MISSING NANO-MUGEN COMPILATION OF THE YEAR
Also missing is the only compilation that got me started to listen to English rock and other JRock groups: NANO-MUGEN COMPILATION. Because this year the committee decided to not release a compilation but only initiate the live performance, also known as the NANO-MUGEN CIRCUIT 2010. But in later years they have made both events happen, but not having it in the year seems rather disappointing…

DISBANDMENT NEWS, IN JAPANESE
Yesh, I do understand Japanese. Not a lot, but more than enough to understand Kanji words (which looks like Chinese), like 発売 (release)，中断 (hiatus) and 解散, which stands for disbandment. I think I did post this before, but the end of bands RYTHEM and HIGH and MIGHTY COLOR just as I was getting interested in them is not a good sign already. Now you know what I meant in the previous paragraph, huh. *silence* Well not that I’m worried, but then I also noticed that not everyone can last, not even in the music industry…

Nevertheless, the number of songs increasing is rather inevitable, and that really goes to show that I cannot live without Japanese songs, but that is also an exaggeration.
Next up on The Klassic Note Spirit: I needed Chinese songs already?

Sunday Night Report: Entertainment News Weekly, In Time

You guys know how much effort I put in just to remember to come here in time to type this and Klasic Note Spirit? (Audience: A reminder from your phone?) Oi! You’re not supposed to tell them!

ANIME
Coppelion: It seems that the Ozu sisters have no intention to be good schoolgirls, so we get to watch more action next episode, perhaps? Even the robot’s determined to get into the action… whatever that would be. I don’t read the Manga, you know…
Samurai Flamenco (changing sequence of viewing liao): Looks like King Torture is a maniac that sends out monsters (anybody think this is weird already?) that like to commit suicide on the sight of their weakness. Quite typical I suppose, and I think it’s getting more exciting.
Nagi no Asukara: Well… now they don’t let the kids leave the sea already? How? What would happen? What is the impact on the surface that the Sea God may intend to bring upon the people? Since this is Original Animation, waiting is the only way to find out… Interesting though, as how things develop. Still got time to talk about their love pentagon…
Golden Time: Seems like Banri talking about his past with Linda… and guess what? The old soul triumphs over the new? Now that’s a good time. I guess that’s what the title means. But doesn’t that mean Kouko’s going to be the victim? Well feeling sorry for her already… the character, that is. Haha. (Audience: You're interested in Hocchan already? You remembered what you mentioned on that other post?) MOVING ON!

MANGA
BLEACH: Komamura’s done, and Kyoraku can still chat with the other Sternritter while protected by Nanao-chan’s Kido (it seems). And seems like killing the stronger enemy is going to take some time to postpone, as Rukia  and Renji are here to clear up the mess. The others, I mean. *silence* I didn’t know I could write THIS much. So much for story development…

MUSIC
Looks like I’ve only Aqua Timez this week, along with sphere’s new single. Checked and confirmed packages from Animate Online Shop (Mina-chan’s single and Yocchan’s, with SPECIAL PRESENTS…) and they’re most likely coming my way by my end-of-year leave period. Great. Also would be ordering SPECIAL OTHER’s live CD (worried their best album wouldn’t appear), sphere’s single (because missed the specials already) and SPYAIR’s single, which would be their first on my shelf. Yesh, the Samurai Flamenco opening song.

Next week’s on two more singles - Ayachi and MiraMuse (Samurai Flamenco Ending Song) - and two more albums (Kawano Marina, ChouCho) and one more single (Kana-chan) would conclude this year. Wow. I didn’t notice it’s all females…

GAMES?
Well I thought I should share. Recently been VERY hooked into rail transport games, from the new ones like Rail Nation (click here), Pocket Trains (@ Google Play Store) to oldies like LEGO LOCO (if you guys played this it’s my ideal game on lower specs) and Sid Meier’s Railroads (fun, but tiring, and rather complicated). No, not playing NFS Rivals…

Cya guys then. Next up: Klassic Note Spirit excerpt (actually haven’t finished up the real script yet hehe) Part 4 – Where Things Get Interesting…

[P.S.: Oops forgot to add the links xD]